Jeremy Engels

Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences

Office: 215 Sparks Building
Telephone: (814) 863-0760

Fax: (814) 863-7986
E-mail: jde13@psu.edu

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION:

B.A., University of Kansas, 2002
M.A., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2003
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2006

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS:

My research investigates the rhetorical foundations of democratic practices, in all their beauty, in all their ugliness, and ultimately in all their perplexity.  My first book, Enemyship, investigates, through detailed historical case studies, how talk of "the enemy" functions to coordinate political action--all the while theorizing the limits of such talk and its inappropriateness in republics/democracies.  It is currently being considered for publication.  Building on the foundations of this work, I am currently drafting a series of essays that investigate the rhetorical aspects of “peace”—how we define it, how we argue for it, and how we might do this better than we have in the past. 

 

COURSES:

CAS 083, Freshman Seminar, The Rhetoric of War
CAS 311, Rhetoric, Politics, and Argumentation
CAS 411, Rhetorical Criticism
CAS 497, The Rhetorics of War and Peace
CAS 507, Contemporary Democratic Theory
CAS 597, Liberalism and Power

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Jeremy Engels and Gregory Goodale, “‘Our Battle Cry Will Be: Remember Jenny McCrea!’: A Précis on the Rhetoric of Revenge,” forthcoming in American Quarterly. 

Jeremy Engels, “Democratic Alienation,” forthcoming in Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 11, no. 3 (2008).

 

Jeremy Engels, “President Bush and the End of History: A Meditation on the New Eschatology,” in In Search of the Rhetorical Legacy of George W. Bush, ed. Thomas R. Burkholder, forthcoming from Michigan State University Press. 

 

Jeremy Engels, “Floating Bombs Encircling Our Shores: Post-9/11 Rhetorics of Piracy and Terrorism,” Cultural Studies—Critical Methodologies 7, no. 3 (2007), 326-349.

Jeremy Engels, “Disciplining Jefferson: The Man within the Breast and the Rhetorical Norms of Producing Order,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 9, no. 3 (2006), 411-436.

Jeremy Engels, “‘Equipped for Murder’: The Paxton Boys and ‘the Spirit of Killing all Indians’ in Pennsylvania, 1763-1764,” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 8, no. 3 (2005), 355-382 [lead article].

Jeremy Engels, “Reading the Riot Act: Rhetoric, Psychology, and Counter-Revolutionary Discourse in Shays’s Rebellion, 1786-1787,” Quarterly Journal of Speech 91, no. 1 (2005), 63-88.   

 

AWARDS

The Ruth S. and Charles H. Bowman Award, Department of Speech Communication, University of Illinois. Award given to the most outstanding graduate student in the department based on their record of scholarship, teaching, and service. May 2006.

The Karl Wallace Award, Department of Speech Communication, University of Illinois. Award given for outstanding scholarship. May 2005.